I'd like to apologise to Margherita.
You may remember that we have had an increasingly battered tapestry of the Feeding of the Five Thousand hanging on the wall in the Moot House antechapel. It looked past its best, so I thought it was time it went.
Needless to say, the minute I threw it away, Margherita turned up wondering what had happened to her picture.
And yes, I have broken the rules that say you should only get rid of a "donated" item, however ghastly, once 2 generations of the donor's family have passed away.
And I can only blame poor research. I believed that Margherita wouldn't mind as she was dead.
Turned out she'd just been on holiday in Skegness.
Margherita has been very gracious about the whole thing, and says she could see how I got the two confused.
Really made me laugh. I haven't been to Skegness but surely it's not as bad as that.
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